Primitive home of Maria, aged Yosemite squaw, the last living member of
the Indian band ejected from Yosemite by the Mariposa Battalion

PHOTO BY W. H. JACKSON (Not a view of the Yosemite episode)

HOW THE FIRST WAGON WAS BROUGHT TO YOSEMITE

COURTESY YOSEMITE MUSEUM

OPENING OF THE MARIPOSA ROAD

A great celebration marked the completion of Washburn, Chapman,
Coffman, and Company’s Mariposa Road on July 22, 1875

PHOTO BY J. T. BOYSEN

AN EARLY MOTOR BUS IN YOSEMITE VALLEY

PHOTO BY J. T. BOYSEN

[AUTOMOBILE IN YOSEMITE] IN 1914

“Speed will be limited to six miles per hour, except on straight
stretches when approaching teams will be visible, when, if no teams are in
sight, this speed may be increased to an approximate maximum speed of
ten miles per hour.”

YOSEMITE PARK AND CURRY COMPANY PHOTO

MODERN TRANSPORTATION

“Mother” Curry and one of the Studebaker coaches which assumes its share
of their annual load of half a million tourists

PHOTO BY [James V.] LLOYD

PERFECT ROADS FOR MODERN VEHICLES

The system of approach roads and Valley floor avenues will long stand as
monuments to the memory of W. B. Lewis, their insistent proponent

The oldest building in Yosemite, known as Cedar Cottage. Every plank,
rafter, and joist in the building was whipsawed or hewn by hand

[Editor’s note:
The Cedar Cottage was torn down in 1938-1940—dea.]

COURTESY YOSEMITE MUSEUM

BLACK’S HOTEL, 1869-1888

COURTESY YOSEMITE MUSEUM

LA CASA NEVADA, 1870 TO EARLY ’90’s

Snow’ House, on the flat between Vernal and Nevada Falls, accommodated
the many users of the horse trail built by Snow in 1869

COURTESY YOSEMITE MUSEUM

THE STONEMAN HOUSE, 1889-1896

“. . . . in 1887 the state built a four-story structure that would
accommodate about one hundred and fifty guests”

COURTESY YOSEMITE PARK AND CURRY COMPANY

GLACIER POINT HOTEL, 1917 TO DATE

“Highest Winter Resort in the World”

[Editor’s note:
The Glacier Point Hotel burned down in 1969
—dea.]

COURTESY OF MRS. D. A. CURRY

CAMP CURRY, 1899 TO DATE

Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Curry originated an idea in tourist service which
revolutionized hostelry operation in Yosemite and other National Parks

COURTESY YOSEMITE PARK AND CURRY COMPANY

THE AHWAHNEE HOTEL, 1927 TO DATE

PHOTO BY [James V.] LLOYD

THE BOOTHE LAKE HIGH SIERRA CAMP, 1924 TO DATE

The unique system of high-country camps in Yosemite has grown from
plans made by W. B. Lewis in 1923

[Editor’s note:
This camp was moved and
renamed Vogelsang High Sierra Camp.
Vogelsang
is German for “bird song”—dea.]

COURTESY OF SIERRA CLUB

THE MAY LUNDY MINE

Reports of the State Mining Bureau indicate that gold worth something
like three million dollars was produced by the May Lundy Mine

COURTESY OF SIERRA CLUB

MOUNT DANA SUMMIT MINE

Yosemite hikers who have climbed into that interesting summit region above Gaylor Lakes, no doubt, pondered over
the origin of long-deserted rock cabins clustered about a deep mine shaft

COURTESY YOSEMITE MUSEUM

GALEN CLARK

One of the first commissioners for Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove
of Big Trees, “Guardian of the Valley” for twenty-six years

COURTESY YOSEMITE MUSEUM

GABRIEL SOVULEWSKI

A living link between modern administration and the army management.

COURTESY YOSEMITE MUSEUM

HUNTERS IN YOSEMITE

In 1896 destruction of both animals and plants was prohibited.

PHOTO BY HILEMAN

STEPHEN TYNG MATHER

“. . . with generous and far-seeing wisdom he has made accessible for a multitude of American their great
heritage of snow-capped mountains, of glaciers and streams and falls, of stately forests and quiet meadows.”

PHOTO BY [James V.] LLOYD

THE YOSEMITE MUSEUM

This National Park Service institution is a gift of the Laura Spelman
Rockefeller Memorial through the American Association of Museums. It
serves as a popular Yosemite guide for the 300,000 visitors who each year
enter its doors. Within it are contained the historical items upon which
this book is based. More than 300 donors have contributed to its accessions.

[Editor’s note:
Today the Museum building is used for administrative offices
and most of the photographs, paintings, and artifacts are locked away
when it closed in 1967.
The only museum space left is a room for an small Indian exhibit.
—dea.]